No worse than automatic tape loaders that push a long strip of tape trough various feeds and onto a takeup reel where it is made to stick. at least each of these strips had a handle on it.
In later years all serious computer tape drives had autoloaders, and I think a few for high end consumer tape recorders. <pre>--Carey</pre> > On 04/12/2024 8:48 AM CDT Liam Proven via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > > On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 at 13:31, Paul Koning <paulkon...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > Yes. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_2321_Data_Cell . By the > > standards of the time it was an unusually high capacity storage device, way > > faster than a room full of tapes and much larger than the 2311 disk drive. > > Fascinating. Thank you. It sounds truly awful. A device that > effectively tries to push strips of tape into receptacles? > > -- > Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven > Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com > Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven > IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 > Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053
